No one likes these consent modals, not the EU, not the companies, not the end users.
But they're good.
They're making the negative externality visible. We had developed an ecosystem where as soon as you clicked on a webpage it would spaff your personal data to third party brokers and infest you with tracking across the entire internet. All driven by marketing and sales departments. All driven by a capitalist free market.
The regulations changed nothing other than to make people annoyed by this. Good. Take that anger and direct it against the god damn companies building this stuff, many of the employees of which are on this site. Stop whining about the EU, they're just holding up a mirror to the abject horror of tech.
No, they are not good in any way. Imagine you have to press buttons whenever you start your car and have to give promises you are not going to go above the speed limit...
It's just plain NONSENSE. This consent madness should be implemented in the browser. You set it once, and then you just forget about it. Poof, problem gone. If
I cannot imagine that the legal systems in question would consider setting a consent setting in your browser, once, to be explicit positive and informed opt-in.
It was in the browser (still is?) called DNT, and it didn't work because the industry ignored, circumvented and even actively opposed it.
Your idea has been tried and was found to not work.
Nah, it should be like notifications. You can set a global block on those. Same should apply to these cookie consent things. You set what you want to keep and enjoy a popup free web.
But they're good.
They're making the negative externality visible. We had developed an ecosystem where as soon as you clicked on a webpage it would spaff your personal data to third party brokers and infest you with tracking across the entire internet. All driven by marketing and sales departments. All driven by a capitalist free market.
The regulations changed nothing other than to make people annoyed by this. Good. Take that anger and direct it against the god damn companies building this stuff, many of the employees of which are on this site. Stop whining about the EU, they're just holding up a mirror to the abject horror of tech.